Consulting Services
The ACA team's varied experience enables us to deliver an outstanding combination of strategic, financial marketing and operational expertise to clients. Ranging from industry forecasting and benchmarking to risk management, as well as expert witness and litigation support, ACA delivers the specialized knowledge and services our clients need to fulfill their business objectives.

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Corporate Finance Advice

ACA's professionals have assisted some of the world's largest financial institutions and aerospace companies in performing critical due diligence as part of acquisitions, as well as corporate risk reviews of major initiatives. Our background provides us a perspective that helps identify critical risks to each project's success. We combine our aviation industry knowledge with financial risk management skills that have application to enterprise risk as well as financial instruments. This enables our senior professionals to play invaluable roles in designing joint ventures and structuring financing strategies. One of the firm's core specialties is the use of insurance products to meet client-financing requirements. This includes structuring project financings for major projects throughout the world.

Recent Engagements

  • Advised airline consortium on financing of passenger lounges and new terminal gates.
  • Organized meeting for USDA with the New York financial community to help USDA understand the limitations of its alternative fuel finance guarantee programs.
  • Advised modification center and leasing company on financing options.
  • Advised avionics manufacturing company on financing alternatives.
  • Advised manufacturer of turbo props on customer financings.
  • Advised U.S. aerospace company on the creation of a joint venture in China.
  • Advised management of a service company on management buyout.
  • Provided private equity funds with due diligence support in a number of leveraged transactions.
  • Produced study for the FAA identifying alternative aviation fuel project financing issues that must be addressed to support the deployment of sustainable jet fuel in the U.S. and recommending changes to government finance support programs.
  • Advised Caribbean-based airline on working capital, aircraft and financing alternatives.